EP4298900A1 - System zur aufrechterhaltung einer futtermenge und verfahren zur fütterung von nutztieren - Google Patents

System zur aufrechterhaltung einer futtermenge und verfahren zur fütterung von nutztieren Download PDF

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EP4298900A1
EP4298900A1 EP23182419.4A EP23182419A EP4298900A1 EP 4298900 A1 EP4298900 A1 EP 4298900A1 EP 23182419 A EP23182419 A EP 23182419A EP 4298900 A1 EP4298900 A1 EP 4298900A1
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Erik Stenumgaard
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A01K5/02—Automatic devices
    • A01K5/0266—Automatic devices with stable trolleys, e.g. suspended
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K1/00—Housing animals; Equipment therefor
    • A01K1/10—Feed racks
    • A01K1/105—Movable feed barriers, slides or fences
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K29/00—Other apparatus for animal husbandry
    • A01K29/005—Monitoring or measuring activity, e.g. detecting heat or mating
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F23/00—Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm
    • G01F23/80—Arrangements for signal processing
    • G01F23/802—Particular electronic circuits for digital processing equipment
    • G01F23/804—Particular electronic circuits for digital processing equipment containing circuits handling parameters other than liquid level

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  • the invention regards a system for maintaining an amount of feed available for a livestock along a feeding fence, the system comprising a control device, a feed distribution device, and at least one sensor arranged to monitor the height level of feed on a feeding alley along the feeding fence, wherein the at least one sensor is arranged above the feeding alley and is arranged to detect the height level of feed in each of several scanning sections along the feeding fence.
  • the invention regards a method of feeding coarse fodder to a cattle livestock, by providing a cattle livestock feeding location with a system according to the invention; wherein the method comprises the further steps of:
  • WO2020091597 discloses a feeding system for feeding animals, in particular cows, comprising a feed supply system with feed for the animals.
  • An autonomous feed wagon is configured to automatically feed the animals with feed from the feed supply system.
  • the feed wagon comprises a sensor device for measuring the quantity of feed which is present along a feed fence along which the feed wagon travels.
  • WO2014166498 discloses an animal monitoring system for determining feed consumption of one or more animals feeding at a feeding area, comprising an imaging unit, i.e. a camera, for range imaging the feeding area, identification means configured to uniquely identify each feeding animal, and processing means configured for assessing the amount of feed consumed by each identified animal by determining the reduction of feed in subsequent images of the feeding area in front of each identified animal.
  • an imaging unit i.e. a camera
  • identification means configured to uniquely identify each feeding animal
  • processing means configured for assessing the amount of feed consumed by each identified animal by determining the reduction of feed in subsequent images of the feeding area in front of each identified animal.
  • the feed-measuring device may be provided on a feed wagon or on a separate vehicle.
  • the feed-measuring device is configured to determine a feed amount indicator, and this may be an absolute amount, expressed as a volume or mass, but it may also be a relative amount, such as a percentage of the original amount.
  • the feed-measuring device comprises a feed-height meter, by means of which a reduction in the thickness of the feed layer can be determined.
  • the feed-measuring device may be a laser height meter emitting a laser beam directed at the fodder pile.
  • the invention has for its object to remedy or to reduce at least one of the drawbacks of the prior art, or at least provide a useful alternative to prior art.
  • a system for maintaining a feed amount available for a livestock along a feeding fence comprises a control device, a feed distribution device and at least one detecting laser scanner located above a feeding alley, the at least one scanner being arranged to detect a height level of feed present in separate sections on the feeding alley along the feeding fence.
  • each of the at least one sensor is arranged to scan a broken line along the feeding fence.
  • each of the at least one sensor is arranged to monitor several sections of the feeding fence, each section representing a feeding position at the feeding alley, e.g. 8-10 sections of the feeding alley.
  • control device is arranged to disregard recorded levels above a defined height, thus eliminating monitoring of head of an animal eating feed provided on the feeding alley, etc.
  • the control device is arranged to process the signals provided by the at least one detecting laser scanner to maintain a defined minimum level of feed on the monitored section of the feeding alley by providing adequate operational instructions to the feed distribution device.
  • a method of feeding farm animals comprising the steps of:
  • the height level of feed recorded within a scanning section triggering operation instructions to the feed distribution device may be a calculated average height, a minimum height or a maximum height of feed with said scanning section.
  • a scanning resolution of the detecting laser scanner may be set according to the coarseness of the feed to be distributed, thus limiting the signal data to be processed to a level sufficient to assure cattle continuous access to feed.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a system for maintaining an amount of feed available for a livestock along a feeding fence, the system comprising:
  • the at least one sensor may be arranged to scan a broken line along the feeding fence.
  • the at least one sensor may be arranged to scan several fields along the feeding fence.
  • the length of each section of the broken line alternatively the shape of each scanning field, can be set individually. An effect of this is that the monitoring of the presence of feed along the feed fence may be effectively adopted to the design of the feeding alley, the disposal properties of the feed distribution device, the structure of the feed, etc.
  • the control device may be arranged to disregard registered levels above a defined height, thus eliminating recording of monitored objects temporarily present above the feeding alley.
  • An effect of this is that part of an animal body, e.g. a head of a cattle reaching for feed, the feed distribution device travelling along the feeding alley, or an animal technician inspecting the feeding area being monitored, do not influence on the operation of the feed system.
  • the control device may be arranged to process signals provided by the at least one detecting laser scanner to maintain a defined minimum level of feed on the monitored section of the feeding alley by providing adequate operational instructions to the feed distribution device.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a method of feeding coarse fodder to a cattle livestock, the method comprising following steps:
  • the height level of feed recorded within a scanning section triggering operating instructions to the feed distribution device may be a calculated average height of feed within said scanning section.
  • the height level of feed recorded within a scanning section triggering operating instructions to the feed distribution device may be a minimum height of feed within said scanning section, or a peak height of feed within said scanning section.
  • a scanning resolution of the at least one detecting laser scanner may be set according to a coarseness of the feed.
  • reference numeral 1 denotes a feeding area or an animal shed for a herd, typically a herd of cattle (not shown).
  • a feed system 2 is arranged to provide said coarse fodder 3 on the feeding alley 11, the feed system 2 comprising a feed distribution device 21, here shown as a vehicle arranged to travel on the feeding alley 11 along the at least one feeding fence 12 feeding the coarse fodder 3 onto the feeding alley 11.
  • the feed distribution device 21 may comprise a belt on the floor (not shown).
  • the belt may be a rubber belt.
  • a detecting laser scanner 22 is arranged above the feeding alley 11 and is arranged to monitor at least a portion of the feeding alley 11. Scanning signals are provided to a control device 23 arranged to provide operational instructions to and receive and process status feedback etc. from the feed distribution device 21.
  • a wired or wireless network (not shown) or a combination thereof is provided for signal transmittal from the detecting laser scanner 22 to the control device 23 and between the control device 23 and the feed distribution device 21.
  • the detecting laser scanner 22 is arranged to monitor several in-line sections 222 of the feeding alley 11 along the respective feeding fence 12, thus monitoring the level of fodder 3 along a broken line or several fields (as depicted in figure 3 ) representing the sections 222 to be individually monitored.
  • Laser beams are indicated by the numeral reference 221 in figure 2 .
  • the feed system may be provided with several detecting laser scanners 22, here in the form of one scanner 22 covering a portion of the feeding alley 11 along two opposing feeding fences 12.
  • a feeding alley 11 with a feeding fence 12 of a length extending a monitoring range of the scanner 22 may be monitored by two or more scanners 22 in line above the feeding alley 11.
  • the detecting laser scanner 22 may be provided off-set a mid-point of the portion of the feeding alley 11 to be monitored, e.g. at an end of the feeding alley 11.
  • SICK TiM35x is an exemplary embodiment of the detecting laser scanner 22 found useful for the feed system 2 according to the invention.
  • the portion(s) of the feeding ally 11 to be monitored should be cleaned prior to an initial scanning, thus setting level zero of the portion of the feeding alley 11 to be monitored during a regular operation of the feed system 1. Furthermore, a maximum height level above "level zero" to be recorded by the control device 23 should be set, thus disregarding registered levels above said "maximum height level", eliminating monitoring of a head of an animal eating fodder 3 provided on the feeding alley 11, etc.
  • the control device may forward instructions to the feed distribution device 21 to provide fodder 3 to portion(s) of the feeding alley 11 lacking fodder 3 only, i.e. to portion(s) of the feeding alley 11 wherein the amount of fodder 3 is found being below a defined level.
  • Various sets of instructions can be provided according to the need of the specific type of herd to be fed, e.g. like providing fodder 3 only to totally empty portions of the feeding alley 11 or only to portions of the feeding alley 11 having a feed level below a defined limit, or providing fodder 3 to all of the feeding alley 11 when the monitored level of a defined number of scanning sections 222 is found to be below a defined limit.
  • the defined and monitored level for a scanned section 222 may be calculated mean level, peak level, or bottom level.
  • a scanning resolution of the detecting laser scanner(s) 22 included in the system 2 may be set according to a coarseness of the feed 3, thus optimizing signal data processing without disturbing cattle's access to the feed 3.

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